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SUMMARY:Keith Mayes: The Unteachables Disability Rights and the Invention of Black Special Education
DESCRIPTION:Register to receive Zoom link\nProfessor Keith Mayes’s recent book\, The Unteachables: Disability Rights and the Invention of Black Special Education (University of Minnesota Press)\, examines the overrepresentation of Black students in special education over the course of the twentieth century. Excavating the deep-seated racism embedded in both the public school system and public policy\, it explores the discriminatory labeling of Black students\, and how it indelibly contributed to special education disproportionality\, to student discipline and push-out practices\, and to the school-to-prison pipeline effect. \nThe civil rights and the educational disability rights movements\, Mayes shows\, have both collaborated and worked at cross-purposes since the beginning of school desegregation. Disability rights advocates built upon the opportunity provided by the civil rights movement to make claims about student invisibility at the level of intellectual and cognitive disabilities. Although special education ostensibly included children from all racial groups\, educational disability rights advocates focused on the needs of white disabled students\, while school systems used disability discourses to malign and marginalize Black students.
URL:https://sawyerseminar.newark.rutgers.edu/event/keith-mayes-the-unteachables-disability-rights-and-the-invention-of-black-special-education/
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SUMMARY:Textual Life: A Book Launch and Conversation with Wendell Marsh & R.A. Judy
DESCRIPTION:Join Drs. Wendell H. Marsh and R.A. Judy for an engaging discussion on Textual Life\, a groundbreaking book that recasts the role of knowledge in the making of a colonial and postcolonial nation. It makes a case for a new literary and intellectual-historical approach to Islam in Africa.
URL:https://sawyerseminar.newark.rutgers.edu/event/textual-life/
LOCATION:Source of Knowledge\, 867 Broad Street\, Newark\, NJ\, United States
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SUMMARY:Audible & SASN Environmental and Climate Justice Lecture Series
DESCRIPTION:The SASN-Audible Environmental and Climate Justice Lecture What Now?!: Research\, Learning\, & Doing During Climate Catastrophe and Hyper-racial Capitalism brings together community organizers\, scholars\, and students to examine the existential challenges posed by climate change. \nThis event will feature a keynote by Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò\, author of Reconsidering Reparations and Elite Capture\, Vincent Mann\, Chief of the Ramapough Lenape Nation Turtle Clan\, María López Nuñez\, co-founder of the EJ Agency Group\, and Mia White\, Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies at The New School. This conversation will be moderated by Jean-Pierre Brutus\, senior counsel in the Economic Justice Program at the New Jersey Institute for Social Justice. \nFree and open to the public. Registration required. Lunch will be provided. \n 
URL:https://sawyerseminar.newark.rutgers.edu/event/audible-sasn-environmental-and-climate-justice-lecture-series/
LOCATION:Express Newark\, Room 213\, 54 Halsey Street\, Newark\, NJ\, 07102\, United States
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SUMMARY:Reparative and Restorative Paradigms for Environmental Justice
DESCRIPTION:Restorative and reparative environmental justice is preoccupied with both past and ongoing harms that have been inflicted on communities and the limitations that come with developing and enforcing meaningful environmental regulations under traditional\, legalistic approaches to environmentalism and conservation. But newer humanities-influenced approaches to environmental justice consider a future built from individual and collective actions of refusal and collaborations amid catastrophes.
URL:https://sawyerseminar.newark.rutgers.edu/event/environmental-justice-3/
LOCATION:Express Newark\, Room 213\, 54 Halsey Street\, Newark\, NJ\, 07102\, United States
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SUMMARY:Racial Justice and Reparations
DESCRIPTION:Recent conversations about reparations in the United States have drawn on both history and analyses of current economic\, social\, and political perspectives to propose reparative practices that range from monetary compensation to targeted policies that address racial disparities in wealth\, housing discrimination\, and education access\, among others. At a wider scale\, scholars like Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò have offered a constructivist view of reparations that proposes a historically informed project of distributive justice. Register at go.rutgers.edu/reparations. 
URL:https://sawyerseminar.newark.rutgers.edu/event/racial-justice-and-reparations/
LOCATION:Express Newark\, Room 213\, 54 Halsey Street\, Newark\, NJ\, 07102\, United States
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SUMMARY:Racial Justice and Reparations
DESCRIPTION:Recent conversations about reparations in the United States have drawn on both history and analyses of current economic\, social\, and political perspectives to propose reparative practices that range from monetary compensation to targeted policies that address racial disparities in wealth\, housing discrimination\, and education access\, among others. At a wider scale\, scholars like Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò have offered a constructivist view of reparations that proposes a historically informed project of distributive justice that serves a larger and broader world-making process. The project of reparations\, therefore\, has a forward-facing orientation that by necessity is anchored in the past. Register at go.rutgers.edu/reparations. 
URL:https://sawyerseminar.newark.rutgers.edu/event/1033/
LOCATION:Express Newark\, Room 213\, 54 Halsey Street\, Newark\, NJ\, 07102\, United States
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SUMMARY:Aftermaths of War
DESCRIPTION:How can histories of violence be narrated? What can be done to produce more critical\, complex\, and nuanced pictures that attend not simply to the individual experience of victimization\, but might also shed light on experiences of political agency? From examining literature and assessing the affective power of everyday objects in commemorations of war and conflict\, to grappling with the ethical implications of the stewardship of objects that bear witness to histories of extraction and exploitation\, this seminar will explore the roles of narrative and storytelling practices in mediating violent pasts in ways that may offer reparative tools for the future.\n \n 
URL:https://sawyerseminar.newark.rutgers.edu/event/public-events-2/
LOCATION:Express Newark\, Room 213\, 54 Halsey Street\, Newark\, NJ\, 07102\, United States
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SUMMARY:Disability and Reparations: From Haunting to Hope (Zoom)
DESCRIPTION:How do we reckon with and repair the injustices of institutionalizing disabled people? Haunted house attractions\, exclusive housing estates\, and abandoned buildings are some of the common afterlives of disability institutions … justice and reparations are not. However\, there is increasing momentum at the international human rights and local community levels for truth-telling and reparations towards disabled people who experienced institutionalization. In her keynote\, Associate Professor Steele introduces the human rights and philosophical reasons why reparation is necessary and discusses some ways in which governments and communities are already engaged in these practices. \nRegister to receive Zoom link. 
URL:https://sawyerseminar.newark.rutgers.edu/event/disability-and-reparations-from-haunting-to-hope-zoom/
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SUMMARY:Disability Justice
DESCRIPTION:Disability has long been framed as an individualized\, bio-medical deficit in need of remediation\, control\, or erasure. Dominant definitions have deferred to the “expert knows best” over the person themselves. These framings originated from medicalized perspectives that approached illness or impairment as a problem to be solved. In educational spaces\, special education classes for students manage and contain perceptions of behavior or communication that fall outside the realm of “normal.” Carceral spaces\, like prisons and nursing homes\, sequester and confine testimonies about disabled experience\, particularly of adults (as much of the literature and knowledge of disability is focused on young children or youth). From the vantage point of the Humanities\, disability studies have pointed out the ways these models and definitions of disability can be reconsidered to better understand disability as an essential part of what it means to be human and a necessary aspect of coalition building. One of the main contributions disability studies makes to the humanities is expanding conversations about representation. Disabled characters in literature\, film\, and television are often used to represent negative ideas or function as literary devices rather than providing realistic portrayals of people living with disability or madness. These representations deliver a message\, one that does not pertain to the lived realities of the Deaf\, neurodivergent\, and disabled individuals. Disability studies continue to influence the understanding of representation by centering disabled individuals as experts (rather than passive objects spoken about by caregivers or medical professionals). The disability rights phrase “nothing about us without us” or the disability justice phrase “existence is resistance” captures the idea that disabled people should be part of creating the literature\, art\, laws\, policies\, and history about disability. This simple idea that disabled people are the authority on their own experiences has marked effects on the way disability is represented. \nClick here to register!
URL:https://sawyerseminar.newark.rutgers.edu/event/public-events/
LOCATION:Express Newark\, Room 213\, 54 Halsey Street\, Newark\, NJ\, 07102\, United States
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